Indigenous Chic

Christianity & the Cult of Indigenous People

by Mark Tooley

Talk of “indigenous people” is all the rage in both academia and
liberal church circles. The current fashion dates back at least to the radicalism
of the 1960s, which saw Western civilization as an oppressive imposition upon
the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. These, it was believed,
were steadfast in resisting the alleged Western evils of capitalism, consumerism,
rationalism, environmental degradation, social hierarchy, and Christianity.

Until the 1980s the emphasis on indigenous peoples was linked to the larger
leftist agenda of socialism. Liberation theologians and their secular comrades
assumed . . .

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